That one game type!!!!

[mattttherman3]

Why, WHY DO I KEEP BUYING FIGHTING GAMES?! I literally cannot beat anyone one on one, I always forget the fucking combos and get fucking owned no matter how much I practice! There is no other game type that makes me rage so hard. What is your one game type?! FUCK I'M SO MAD!!

 

[Terminate421]

RTS's? I never can play them right. I always seem to just make tanks and then get zerg rushed as soon as I'm done making them.

 

[tippy2k2]

I shall echo the above post and say RTS games.

I really want to get into them but I just can't think fast enough to have any kind of success in those games. My general strategy is "Build the big bad-ass mother fucker" unit and then get curb stomped because I don't multitask well, which means I don't change tactics when my ground BBAMF gets swarmed by a bunch of air units.

 

[The_Lost_King]

RTS's? I never can play them right. I always seem to just make tanks and then get zerg rushed as soon as I'm done making them.

Try putting your tanks in siege mode.

There is no genre that I hate. There are plenty I am bad at, but none I hate.

 

[mbarker]

COD I can't play that game for the life-of-me. Every time I get owned by some little jerk and its nothing but trash talk can't stand FPS. I swiched to single player games and RPG because of COD.

 

[Razentsu]

Why, WHY DO I KEEP BUYING FIGHTING GAMES?! I literally cannot beat anyone one on one, I always forget the fucking combos and get fucking owned no matter how much I practice! There is no other game type that makes me rage so hard. What is your one game type?! FUCK I'M SO MAD!!

One tip is don't focus too much on combos. Combos are important as they maximize your damage output, but the fact that you know a combo or two won't really factor into your chances of winning. You have to learn how to hit someone before you are able to do any combos. Build on your fundamentals such as spacing, defence, and pressure, and you should do fine even if you don't maximize your damage output.

With strong spacing, you can induce whiffs and punish your opponent. With strong defence, you can force your opponent to make mistakes and punish them. And with strong pressure, you will be able to straight up break your opponent's defence. These are the main ways to open up your opponent.

Anyways, the one genre that interests me but I don't really "get" is MOBA. I like watching and talking about them, but I don't particularly like playing them due to the pace and length of the typical MOBA match.

 

[Rednog]

Chalk me up as another being terrible at fighting games, they've always fascinated me, but my brain just can't wrap its head around it.
That and many fighting games don't exactly have the best tutorials nor are many noob friendly.

 

[viranimus]

I dont really have a type. I think I do just fine in just about any game type.

Alright, I guess to fit the OP criteria Ill say MMOs. Dont get me wrong, I can do just fine in MMOs, However I do not play them as most people expect them to be played. I am typically a soloist. I have little or no interest in raiding, Though Ill help someone if they need/want/ask for it. I could care less about the empty pursuit of gear. Typically, when in an MMO I will simply do what ever entertains me at that exact moment, even if its wasting 3 hours swimming an ocean or attempting to train and clear an entire zone. We all know this isnt how one is "supposed" to play an MMO and truth be told I never really find MMOs satisfying any more, so the fact that I still keep giving them the benefit of the doubt would let them fall under this "one of those" types for me.

 

[mattttherman3]

I dont really have a type. I think I do just fine in just about any game type.

Alright, I guess to fit the OP criteria Ill say MMOs. Dont get me wrong, I can do just fine in MMOs, However I do not play them as most people expect them to be played. I am typically a soloist. I have little or no interest in raiding, Though Ill help someone if they need/want/ask for it. I could care less about the empty pursuit of gear. Typically, when in an MMO I will simply do what ever entertains me at that exact moment, even if its wasting 3 hours swimming an ocean or attempting to train and clear an entire zone. We all know this isnt how one is "supposed" to play an MMO and truth be told I never really find MMOs satisfying any more, so the fact that I still keep giving them the benefit of the doubt would let them fall under this "one of those" types for me.

Wow, this all the way. This is exactly why I played runescape for so long, so much single player stuff to do. Raids are not that bad in runescape because if you die, you lose most of your gear so you never have noobs with you when you go. But yeah, I played Guild Wars for the story, I played TOR for the story, and I really should not have started with the Trooper story because the game got old extremely fast after that

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

RTS's? I never can play them right. I always seem to just make tanks and then get zerg rushed as soon as I'm done making them.

I am with you there... my personal ethic in them is to gather, gather, gather... and make an enormous army that can't lose... but unfortunately with this approach I tend to end up on the back food, and lose my entire offensive force to defensive duties!

 

[viranimus]

I dont really have a type. I think I do just fine in just about any game type.

Alright, I guess to fit the OP criteria Ill say MMOs. Dont get me wrong, I can do just fine in MMOs, However I do not play them as most people expect them to be played. I am typically a soloist. I have little or no interest in raiding, Though Ill help someone if they need/want/ask for it. I could care less about the empty pursuit of gear. Typically, when in an MMO I will simply do what ever entertains me at that exact moment, even if its wasting 3 hours swimming an ocean or attempting to train and clear an entire zone. We all know this isnt how one is "supposed" to play an MMO and truth be told I never really find MMOs satisfying any more, so the fact that I still keep giving them the benefit of the doubt would let them fall under this "one of those" types for me.

Wow, this all the way. This is exactly why I played runescape for so long, so much single player stuff to do. Raids are not that bad in runescape because if you die, you lose most of your gear so you never have noobs with you when you go. But yeah, I played Guild Wars for the story, I played TOR for the story, and I really should not have started with the Trooper story because the game got old extremely fast after that

I still firmly believe that Bioware could release offline versions of TOR and not only would it sell it would be received better than the MMO. As for Boredom... I ran a Sith Warrior, Supposedly one of the best, most well written stories in the game and I cant even tell you how long it took to slog my way through to completion I was so bored. Its a shame too, for all they did right with it, they ended up tripping over something that would have been so easy to avoid. Its MMO 101. Dont bore your customers.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I would say RTS games yeah. I could never multitask that well at all. I'd set an order of tanks or somesuch and I will just not notice when they've been built so they sit in my base doing nothing all game.

I love my fighting games now, the trick is to not give a flying fuck about winning. Seriously. I found it just gimps your enjoyment of the game so I just changed my mindset on it.

Why, WHY DO I KEEP BUYING FIGHTING GAMES?! I literally cannot beat anyone one on one, I always forget the fucking combos and get fucking owned no matter how much I practice! There is no other game type that makes me rage so hard. What is your one game type?! FUCK I'M SO MAD!!

One tip is don't focus too much on combos. Combos are important as they maximize your damage output, but the fact that you know a combo or two won't really factor into your chances of winning. You have to learn how to hit someone before you are able to do any combos. Build on your fundamentals such as spacing, defence, and pressure, and you should do fine even if you don't maximize your damage output.

With strong spacing, you can induce whiffs and punish your opponent. With strong defence, you can force your opponent to make mistakes and punish them. And with strong pressure, you will be able to straight up break your opponent's defence. These are the main ways to open up your opponent.

Anyways, the one genre that interests me but I don't really "get" is MOBA. I like watching and talking about them, but I don't particularly like playing them due to the pace and length of the typical MOBA match.

As an addendum, as a Mu-12 Professional. Who needs combos when you have keepaway? Yes i've become that asshole who uses the keepaway character and zones the fuck out of you. In BlazBlue anyway. I play Makoto as well but I already have half decent combos and ways in with her.

Well that's not strictly true. Rachel is the pure keepaway character in BB, Mu is the zoning character with some rushdown and a HUGE amount of, what Dante would say "GET BACK" moves. End the smallest combo with forward Heavy or Sword of Decimation and they are just on the other side of the screen now. She has a barrier she forms around herself that pushes people back as a very last resort as well. I would love to know exactly how invincible that is.

Guns + Arrows of Heaven + strategic gun detonation and positioning + More guns = a crying Hakumen.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I'm so getting lynched for this, but motherfucking JRPGs.
I simply cannot for the life of me enjoy any JRPGs, and many of them I downright despise. It's just that one single thing in life which I absolutely fucking hate with burning fury, and if someone was to ask me why, I would not be able to give a straight and proper answer.
i don't care if the reviews are good. I don't care is the community thinks it's the second coming or something. If it's a JRPG, I will not play it. Ever.

 

[crimson sickle2]

MMO's, I've tried a couple times actually play one of the things, but every time I download or buy a copy, the games just seem to erase themselves from my consciousness and I forget to ever play them.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

2D fighting games. They have no depth - literally and figuratively.

 

[Tanakh]

I literally cannot beat anyone one on one, I always forget the fucking combos and get fucking owned no matter how much I practice!

You are either doing something wrong or should visit a pedagog or psychologist, those learning problems are not normal mate.

OT: None genre that I remember, there are some games that I start sucking at but after some months get into decent shape. Right now I am getting back into RTS shape and over around a month have increased my APM by about a hundred to 320 and are starting to hit my timings nicely.

 

[FFP2]

2D fighting games. They have no depth - literally and figuratively.

Even Blazblue and Skullgirls?

Mine would be MMOs. Never really understood why people would play WoW for years on end. Might get into that new Final Fantasy one though.

 

[krazykidd]

I play a lot of fighting games , but man do i suck . I do win , but my defense is usually lacking . If anyone can apply a decent enough amount of pressure on me , i will lose . I'm all about monentum . I can only play rushdown . Anything else i suck at.

 

[Razentsu]

2D fighting games. They have no depth - literally and figuratively.

Hah, I get the literal joke. But when you say figurative, are you referring to depth of gameplay? Because if you are, then this is probably one of the craziest things I have ever heard.

And if that is the case, why target 2D fighters specifically? 2D and 3D fighting games share many similar gameplay concepts, but the two sub-genres execute them a little differently.

 

[omicron1]

MOBAs. I hate the bloody things - too much competition, not enough exploration. And yet I keep trying new ones - and worse, paying money for the 'privilege'.


Fighting games, too. Can't stand 'em.